Faculty & Staff Publications

The Institute's renowned faculty of scholars and art world practitioners has published a broad range of texts on art scholarship and education. These publications serve as academic resources for students at the Institute providing knowledge and insight on topics including art valuation, global art markets, art history, and research methods.

Featured Publications

Flows and Counter-Flows; Globalisation in Contemporary Art

Sternberg Press, 2017Marcus Verhagen

Over the past quarter of a century, artists have made powerful interventions in debates around globalization, addressing various dimensions of cross-border exchange, from mass migration to the dynamics of translation, and devising new ways of conceptualizing them. Marcus Verhagen’s Flows and Counterflows: Globalisation in Contemporary Art tells the story of those interventions, dwelling in particular on projects that draw out both the dangers and the tangible or imaginable benefits of global exchange.

Art Business Today: 20 Key Topics

Lund Humphries, 2016Edited by Jos Hackforth-Jones and Iain Robertson

Art Business Today: 20 Key Topics is an accessible and comprehensive companion to the business of art. It is an essential reference book for students in the areas of art business, arts management, the creative and cultural industries, art history, and general business and management.

Renegotiating the Body: Feminist Art in 1970s London

Primarily concerned with the feminist body as site for making and exhibiting works, this book examines themes that look at the body as material, the body and performance, as well as the alternative creative platforms in 1970s feminist art.

Photography: The Whole Story

Prestel, 2012Edited by Juliet Hacking

Photography: The Whole Story, a new book edited by Juliet Hacking, Director of the Institute's MA in Photography programme in London, is a definitive history of photography that looks at every step of the field's dynamic evolution, period by period and movement by movement. Each key genre is chronologically presented within its social, economic, and political context, along with close analysis of specially selected works that best exemplify the characteristics of the period. The contains more than 500 examples in black and white and color and explores virtually every aspect of the medium since its first public demonstration in 1839 to the latest innovations. To learn more about the book, please visit: Thames & Hudson

Our Library

Sotheby’s Institute of Art Libraries in both London and New York are small, specialized resources that support teaching at the Institute. The libraries provide key resources for the taught elements of the graduate-level courses during the first two semesters, as well as for the semester and summer courses. These resources enable students to fulfill course work including seminar papers, group projects and cataloguing exercises.

Together, they also subscribe to a number of online databases such as JSTOR, Art Full Text and Project MUSE, as well as bibliographic databases which include ArtBibliographies Modern and Design and Applied Arts Index. The libraries’ ProQuest databases include titles such as Financial Times and Wall Street Journal online. Students will also have access to art sales databases such as Artnet and Art Price during their studies and can access image databases such as ARTstor and Bridgeman Education Art Library.